As its name suggests, Rank Tracker Free Edition is the free version of the commercial Rank Tracker application that has been designed to act as powerful SEO (Search Engine Optimization) application for monitoring search engines rankings and research keywords.

Rank Tracker allows users to easily and quickly track their website's rankings on various search engines, supports over 300 search engines, monitors any number of websites, tracks your competitor's rankings, as well as to compare your competitor's rankings with yours.

How does it work?

The application is quite simple to use. It will ask you to enter the URL of your website from the get-to and automatically checks your search engine rankings. Then, it displays regular updates of your website’s location on search results, in real-time.

It’s graphical user interface is sophisticated, yet straightforward and easy to use, making use of tabs to display various sections. You can also view progress and visibility graph, history records, ranking data, visits graph, as well as keyword difficulty.

Under the hood and supported OSes

A quick look under the hood of Rank Tracker will show us that the application is written entirely in the cross-platform Java programming language, which means that is will run well on any operating system where the Java Runtime Environment is supported, including all GNU/Linux distributions, as well as the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It has been successfully tested with both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms.

Rank Tracker Free Edition was reviewed by Marius Nestor, last updated on October 13th, 2014